The track was written with the help of American Idol viewers throughout Season 11 of the show. The creation of the song was promoted through Coca-Cola's "Perfect Harmony" program where, throughout the season, American Idol
viewers were invited to contribute parts of the lyrics to a tune
offered online, making the song a true collaborative effort by a big
number of people. After four submission and voting phases and thousands
of lyric submissions,
contributions were edited and the eventual final version performed by
Derülo and tipped as part of his "healing process" after he suffered an
accident that left him in a neck brace for many months. In an interview
with American Idol host Ryan Seacrest
on the latter's radio show, Derülo described the writing process as
follows: "The fans got to help me write the song. I started writing the
song, but I left a bunch of lines blank and the fans have been helping
me fill in the lines. There were lots of great, great lines. It made the
process a little difficult. Thankfully, I had a lot of help to whittle
it down to a number that I could actually look at. There were tons and
tons of great stuff, but we got it down and I believe we came up with
the best product!"
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